---
type: "Bill"
title: "Correctional Services - Death of Incarcerated Individual - Notification"
description: "Correctional Services - Death of Incarcerated Individual - Notification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 775"
citation: "Maryland HB 775 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arentz", "Arikan", "Chisholm", "Grammer", "M. Morgan", "Nawrocki", "Nkongolo", "Otto", "Szeliga", "T. Morgan", "Valentine", "Wivell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48f857aa-0856-4b78-99c7-b519b8207886"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0775?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "05260b0c500dda88dac7e3216f33ed8c24948dafd2a82a583cea637beef7d240"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland HB 775 (2025) — Correctional Services - Death of Incarcerated Individual - Notification

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Correctional Services - Death of Incarcerated Individual - Notification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_109_hb0775t.pdf)
2. **First - Correctional Services - Death of Incarcerated Individual - Notification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0775f.pdf)
3. **Third - Correctional Services - Death of Incarcerated Individual - Notification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0775t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arentz — primary (person)
- Arikan — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Grammer — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Nawrocki — primary (person)
- Nkongolo — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)
- Valentine — primary (person)
- Wivell — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/18 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 109 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48f857aa-0856-4b78-99c7-b519b8207886`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).